THE SAMR Model of Integrating  Technology in Education.

Below is a challenge we set ourselves as educators and learners when using technology as part of the learning process at St Benedict's Edgeworth. 

Technology for the sake of technology in the form of a simple substitution (S) is often a very superficial approach. When seeking to use technology in learning, it must at the very least allow us to modify (M) what traditional learning would have been.  Ultimately our goal is to augment (A) or make better and even completely redefine (R) learning altogether. That is the true value of technology as part of the learning process. 

The challenge for us a s teachers when we porpsoe a BYOD porject is to commit to a signifciant change in pedagogy that lifts the use of the device into the transfomrational level of Modification and Redefinition. This is not say that subsitution doesnt develop baseline skills such as docuemnt managemnet and typing withn the tech space (these are failry fundmental to the today's tech wolrd. It's more that the investment we are proposing should be with the vision of what else we could do with technology that would previously be inconcievable without it.